There is no dearth of philosophy/literature talking about why anger is a bad thing and we must deal with it, and musn’t do rash things that we will regret later, and so on. Its nice to hear about that when things are nice and everything’s fine, but when there’s actually a bad situation then an…
In some discussion on the new Kannada movie Amrutha Dhaare, the meaning of Amrutha came up, and it led to the mythological story of the churning of the ocean.
Happened to go through half a day’s training undertaken by Enable India a few months ago, this is a long procrastinated writeup. It was a training on training blind people on computer literacy. Its important to understand the people one is working with.
Recently after seeing Gautham‘s poignant post DMZ Transgressions I recalled some comments I’d made to this article: Latest Communication Technology
I’d read the book Hitchiker’s Guide To The Galaxy during college days as well and had a laugh riot. But reading them recently after a many years I laughed again, but the books had an astonishing depth I’d never perceived before! I wondered why… Found some explanation for it in this article Lament for Douglas…
This is a forwarded mail I quite liked. It has a kind of sentimental tone as you might guess by the title, so its possible that it might immediately get associated with me having gotten married recently Not that I mind but just so that the point dosen’t get missed, I’d like to put a…
Once in a way, it may appear as if we could do without any principles (not referring to anything specific) or anything of that sort. So many people though indifferent to such an idea – plenty of politicians for example – and living corrupt, decadent lives, seem to be getting away with it all, and…
I was saying earlier that I’ve lived in just one single house all my life. At that time I’d not really imagined that that wouldn’t be for very long! We are finally executing the long long pending plan of my mother’s generation in rebuilding the house from scratch, to replace it with something new, modern…
Found this in an old mail from last year while searching for something else, but thought its nice to post here… Ramakrishna told about a corridor in a house, where there were two doors at the end. On one of the doors there was written “heaven”, on the other “lecture about heaven”. When you looked…
[Though there are specifics here, my guess is that similar ideas are applicable to any caste] Going through the” trauma” 😉 of arranged marriage reveals many things, among others, the role of caste in our modern urban highly developed Bangalore society. It is just unbelievable how many highly educated families are so closed knit about…
